LAST UPDATED 9th APRIL 2007

WE  ARE EXTREMELY SAD TO HAVE TO REPORT THAT OUR SPECIAL DOG PERSON TASHA HAD TO BE EUTHANISED AT CHRISTMAS AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS. SHE WAS 14 AND A HALF. TASHA, ALTHOUGH A SMALL DOG HAS LEFT AN ENORMOUS HOLE IN THE WORLD.. WE ALL MISS HER DREADFULLY AND POOR SKYE WHO WAS HER SPECIAL FRIEND AND ABSOLUTELY ADORED HER IS STILL LOOKING FOR HER.

                    My name is TASHA and

                                    I   am a very important dog person. (VIDP)

In response  to an overwhelming number of  requests from my adoring fans I have decided  to start an Advice  Service for   people who want hints on how to deal with cat people  or (nasty) cockatoos .

So if you  have any questions or worries about dealing with Birman cats  or  Sulphur Crested Cockatoos  or Galahs please e-mail me at: 

info@bircats.com

Ms. Tasha V.I.D.P., B.D., G.M. B.A., V.G.S.

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..... and I will  answer  within  a couple of days. I am fully qualified to answer your questions as not only am I naturally brilliant, very well educated (see all those letters after my name!) but  also I've had extensive experience in the field .....and I am a very good speller.

 

Now to tell you a bit about myself

 My main duties as Manager are  protecting  the   area  from  maurauding  humans, dogs and  cats (and scary large animals such as sheep) . (Well, at least alerting  everyone that bad people are about before   I run  and hide, as is sensible). Breaking up any  cat fights, playing  nursemaid and baby sitter and entertaining  all the staff  by  killing  all the soft toys - which are ALL mine whatever the  Birmans may tell you.

I am also beautiful and charming, much more so than  some cats I could mention. However I should not say too many bad things about the  cats around here as  they are all fans of mine - well except for Angel, and all I'll say about her is  that her halo  used to slip sometimes,  especially when she had   babies, she was very possessive and  did not appreciate  my helpful advice.

Talents:

(Many more than I can  list here but here are just a few of them :)

  • Ability  to  detect new toys  at 30 feet and  extract them  from  all unimportant shopping , bags and wrappings
  • Expert ball chaser
  • Refereeing  arguments
  • I can spell . (The words walk, bird, ball,  treat and my own name)
  • Good  alarm dog
  • Good nursemaid
     Excellent eater

Likes:

  • Food,
  •  Treats
  • Balls
  • Food, any food
  • Soft toys
  • Bird whirly toys
  • Squeeky toys
  • Food
  • Kitty (Paradis)
  • People.
  • Food
  • Food  treats

Hates

  • Cocky  Two who is a rotten  nasty  white person who should be  disposed of. No one can say I am prejudiced  against white  bird people, I like Baby, she  is quite nice, but no-one should have to put up with  that other thing and she should be  killed and  eaten  ASAP. Jen   is always complaining about the cost of feeding us all so I think she should  chop off Cocky Two's head and cook her for us.
  • Fights and arguments
  • Big  scary animals
  • Thunder and other big noises.
  • Lack of  food and treats
  • Mechanical  bob cat animals. They  run around with their mouths open trying to eat dogs. I had a traumatic exerience with a particularly nasty one once! It nearly got through the window to eat me!
  • Any other  dogs who think they might like to live here. She can have as many cats as she likes but I am the only dog. I am The One.
  • This is me jumping to get the whirly bird. I am an excellent jumper and can jump as high as two feet!
    Well ok....... I admit that  perhaps some other dogs can jump a little bit higher than that but my jumps are better quality jumps than theirs. And I am  dedicated  to my work.  It is important that I catch it  - one day - so important that I will not even stop for  food treats - how dedicated is that!
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  • BTW did I tell you that she has put me on a diet because she says it is not healthy to be fat! What a load of rubbish! It is  planning for the future in case a famine comes. I know who will last longest then! And she should look in the mirror sometimes; the last time she was slim must have been before I was even born - and I don't see her starving herself!  I am not even allowed to wash the cats' bowls just in case I should get a mean little slither of food out of them!  Baby Cocky (the good cocky) still drops food down to  me but I don't like seed and fruit very much and greens  taste awful but I have to eat them even though they make my nose wrinkle in disgust as she is STARVING  me!  
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    Me and my good friend Skye
 
The following poem was written by another of my friends; Kitty, (Paradis) a couple of years ago and just goes to prove that all the cats worship me as they should... well, ...except for Angel,  but that does not count as she is crazy ... as proved by the fact that she does not love me.
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  • FRIENDSHIP

In general I'm not of those

Who loveth dogs you may suppose

But my friend Tash I do except

From this my general precept.

She is not of purring kind

Thus lacking astute feline mind,

But comes in handy I must say

To mind my kits while I'm away.

She washes me from time to time

Alas! Her tongue is not like mine

(A rough dry feline tongue divine!)

Buy warmly wet with doggy slime.

I've not the heart to tell her this.

So, silent, suffer slobbery kiss.

Such sacrifices one must make

With loving heart for friendship's sake!

Kitty P. (Catperson)

 

Tasha and Kitty (Paradis)

 

This is me with my admirer Kitty (who wrote the poem)

 

Tasha with some of 'her' babies about 7 years ago

 

 

 

VIDP = Very Important Dog Person

BD = Best Dog

GM = General \Manager

BA = Best Animal

VGS = Very Good Speller